Word: gomezes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born in Saragossa, in Aragon, Spain, between 30 and 40 years ago; that she sang in a convent, in fishermen's cafes, before the King of Spain; that she has acquired three maids, eight dogs. 42 trunks of fine clothes; that she smokes cigarets tantalizingly. Her one-time husband, Gomez Carillo, South American journalist, once thought she was insane. But the Pope annulled that marriage...
...fate, the commander of the barracks, General Eleazar Lopez Contreras, had slept poorly and was up at an unusually early hour. . . . In the nick of time, just before the revolted battalion rushed up, General Contreras succeeded in organizing a defense to the barracks. Bullets spotted for two hours. . . . The Gomez...
Militant conspirators chose a dark hour just before dawn last week to attack the regime of picturesque President General Juan Vincente Gomez, famed 70-year-old Dictator of Venezuela...
...definitive seemed the victory that President Gomez relaxed the usual rigid Venezuelan press censorship and permitted publication of all details. This was in sharp contrast to his conduct last month in suppressing for days all news of demonstrations by students who marched through Caracas shouting, "Down with the tyrant Gomez...
Rival Venezuelans, having submitted to Gomez for 20 years, now seem to want a change. Their decision to submit or to revolt is important to U. S. business because Venezuela has become in recent years the second largest oil producing country in the world-the U. S. being first...